New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-19
4 STORY OF TIE PROTECTIVE TARIFF

THE SCOTCH COLONY AT NEwARK-THE MICHIGAN
| NEW STATE HOUSE.
| TRENTON, j. Sept 49, Story Of The Pro-
tective Tari may vet he written With Newark as the
scsoe Ii would begin about q score OF years sge
when the Coates family Of Scotland bad established
their thread works in Rhode lslohd and were RAPIDLY
absorbing the American busin sss. In Scotland they
had intimate friends by the name of Clark. who were
their fierce rivals busin -. be Clarkt eund them
selves closed from The American trade by fsnkee
(evice for the cocoursgen ent OF American industry
So the, determined GENE into the land which their
rivals threatened to occdpy to the exclusion OF all
others, and they selected Q suburban portion OF
NrwarK There they erected n factory OF considerable
size and began the making of thread. Two members
OF tbe firm eame with the busiL and made Nessrk
thpir bone Some hundreds OF working people we're
brought with them and in little while small houses
built the vicinity OF tho factory, then larger
ones, and with the thread workers came bakers snc
butchers and grocers and exceedingly fsw saloo rs.
And the bakers aud butchers and grooers built them
selves houses and other persous liked their company
and built near them. The hundreds OF dwellings to-
came thousands. and the owners OF the thread works
built mansions the superintendent quilt handsome
city residences and the boom tor the Eighth Ward OF
Newark principal OF real estate mon and
the fortune of many who had owned farms there
abonts.
Then another thread company there nom y
10 be- made and naturally sought the vicinity where
the opnlatiun had brcn educated in the trade as II
n
And soon alter still, snoth-r company came, and
each built great factory. and competition Tor lfbor
aud in thu making of good aud cheap thread was
established and the price OF labor were Kept VOL up
AMI the price OF thread was kept well doSn. and
Southern msrchants iound that there we're nov
for the best their cotton In the market
With each factory more dwellings went up and more
butchers and bakers and grocers found trade, willis
the orgna. factory doubled and tueo treb ell IN size
aud in numbs, OF hands employed. Later n linen
thread company saw the advantage OF Tho labor
market and rallrr industries followed. the SEQ oh
are clannish DO ,ple and when Q great oil-colh aud
hnOleu maker in Scotland arranged with big nrm
Nsw-York dry-goods men 90 start On American
factory, he too, preferred the scotch colony IN and
about Newark. and enormous works are rising dairy.
wherein 300 men supporting l.oJU persons, nj least
will employed.
With this comes the announcement that the Clark
company is about double las capacity by tho or C
ton OF more mills. Those leaders IN indus;tv we're
foreigners. but they longer They are
American citizens and ntere, led in American enter
prise and W hat PTotectionis,s they are
The new State House here is pproaching compile
ton 80 tar "a the outer walls Concerned aud the
appearance is excellent IN spite OF the iesbleness o
design. A Gae ,,ght stjn- is used. and II would
redeem much worse faults IN architecture than the
bank-buoins CONCEPTION wbioh iLs co sioners
adopted. The new building will ut least be roOny
and comfortable.
The suicide of Mercer Bexeey, IT,, the son of the
Chiof Justice ptoduoed profound impte>slon. Tue
Chief Juse IL an aged wan aud the Glow IA ri lie
Que TO him. The s,D hs { enia and had been Prose
cutor he Pleas tor this county Tor several years.
DsOJ alton OF a reckless KIN wea,"nei m nd aih
morals and when proion led confinement IN an asylum
,e' inCyitrbc III he hvod, ne oeetmiued To DIE
Ii sh .cking tragedy and Trenton stirred to
the depths
Ex-senator Henry 8. Little says bis lcitcr attacking
Senator McPber-on will @ published soue timo tbis
week. IL bias been e1peo cd isr over year
The yachl Mohican. the property oil William Clark,
will probably remain IN Amer,o ,ters Built by
the three brother. Originally. the American BROTHER
has taken the interest oil tho "hers IA her an tbo
beautiful craft will cruise this side here alter Tor
the greater part OF the time.